The chairman of the House Committee that writes the federal tax code failed to report more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic,…
Some corporate whistle-blowers who cooperate in fraud investigations are being rejected for protection from retaliation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act because they work for a corporate subsidiary.
A former Republican congressman and Department of Homeland Security undersecretary who is now at Venable in Washington, D.C., says he is planning to give up his partnership there in order…
Citing his cooperation with prosecutors in cases that are still being developed, the U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly seeking to reduce by approximately one-half the federal prison time to…
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden opposed a bill that would have cut down on the number of corporate bankruptcies filed in his home state of Delaware.
Burmese pythons aren’t native to Florida. But there apparently may be tens of thousands of them slithering around Florida’s Everglades National Park. Many or most seem to be descendants of…
When the school year started yesterday, a small district in Texas reportedly made history as the first in the country to allow teachers to carry concealed firearms.
Under a new Texas law, state prosecutors can carry handguns anywhere except jails and prisons. That means they are allowed to take them into courthouses and courtrooms.
Lawyers in Pakistan are planning new protests, starting Thursday, as wrangling among the country’s ruling parliamentary coalition intensifies over whether to restore to office all 60 of the appellate judges…
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